{"id":35704,"date":"2021-08-22T23:17:42","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T14:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/aug\/22\/tony-blair-afghanistan-exit-gives-opportunities-to-uks-enemies"},"modified":"2021-08-22T23:17:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T14:17:42","slug":"tony-blair-afghanistan-exit-gives-opportunities-to-uks-enemies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35704","title":{"rendered":"Tony Blair: Afghanistan exit gives opportunities to UK\u2019s enemies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former PM attacks \u2018dangerous\u2019 withdrawal, saying Islamist groups, Russia and China will benefit<\/p>\n<p>The UK and other countries should \u201ccommit for the long term\u201d in places such as Afghanistan, Tony Blair has argued, claiming the chaotic withdrawal would provide opportunities for hostile countries and organisations.<\/p>\n<p>The former prime minister, who published a <a href=\"https:\/\/institute.global\/tony-blair\/tony-blair-why-we-must-not-abandon-people-afghanistan-their-sakes-and-ours?utm_source=social&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=tbi+social\">lengthy article<\/a> late on Saturday night calling the decision to withdraw troops \u201ctragic, dangerous, unnecessary\u201d, used broadcast interviews on Sunday to say the subsequent threat affected not just the Afghan people but also UK security.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/aug\/22\/tony-blair-afghanistan-exit-gives-opportunities-to-uks-enemies\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former PM attacks \u2018dangerous\u2019 withdrawal, saying Islamist groups, Russia and China will benefitThe UK and other countries should \u201ccommit for the long term\u201d in places such as Afghanistan, Tony Blair has argued, claiming the chaotic withdrawal would prov&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1457,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,319,4,61,2292,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-foreign-policy","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-tony-blair","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35705,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35704\/revisions\/35705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}